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Toward a taxonomy of adolescents with chronic pain: Exploratory cluster and discriminant analyses of the bath adolescent pain questionnaire
European Journal of Pain, 06/01/09

Vowles KE et al. - Emerging evidence has indicated that adolescent chronic pain is a significant healthcare issue, the impact of which is determined by a complex interplay of biological, emotional, social, and familial factors. Recently, progress has been made in assessment of pain and functioning in adolescents with chronic pain. A next step is to evaluate whether discrete subgroups of patients exist and whether assessment measures can be used to determine subgroup membership for individual pain sufferers. The present study sought to address these two issues...These results provide strong support for the derived four cluster solution, which may be useful in both clinical and research settings, as it allows for individual adolescent pain sufferers to be classified into groupings according to the severity and type of difficulties being experienced.